INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the broad aims and the major content areas of health services research. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify a study’s research questions, hypotheses, theoretical framework, study design, methodological approaches, and conclusions. Audience: Graduate 3. Identify the strengths and limitations of prominent experimental and quasi-experimental designs as implemented in HSR, the assumptions each relies upon, and specific methods to assess plausibility of each assumption. Audience: Graduate 4. Assess, and identify feasible methods to improve, the internal and external validity of a specific research study. Audience: Graduate 5. Gain facility with key methods of professional communication about health services research studies (conference presentation, discussion, and referee report). Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the broad aims and the major content areas of health services research. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify a study’s research questions, hypotheses, theoretical framework, study design, methodological approaches, and conclusions. Audience: Graduate 3. Identify the strengths and limitations of prominent experimental and quasi-experimental designs as implemented in HSR, the assumptions each relies upon, and specific methods to assess plausibility of each assumption. Audience: Graduate 4. Assess, and identify feasible methods to improve, the internal and external validity of a specific research study. Audience: Graduate 5. Gain facility with key methods of professional communication about health services research studies (conference presentation, discussion, and referee report). Audience: Graduate